A chock-full week in evangelical higher ed with a heavy dose of teachers’ strikes. Thanks to everyone who sent in stories and tips:

Our lead story: The Master’s University struggles with the worst legacy of Fundamentalist U: The personality cult. At CHE.

a group of reviewers acknowledged that Master’s is doing some important things right. Under MacArthur, they said, the institution has engendered deep loyalty from faculty, students, and donors. At the same time, the report depicted Master’s as an accreditor’s nightmare: an insular and oppressive institution where loyalty to the president and his church has sometimes trumped both academic and financial concerns.

• Not quirk, not an idiosyncrasy. TMUS’s problems are part of the long legacy of the dilemma of evangelical higher ed. Here at ILYBYGTH.

Get thee behind me, accreditors.

How does a “Bible Belt Ivy” thrive? College of the Ozarks wows the number-crunchers at Forbes.

• From former CofO faculty at Righting America: What makes the College of the Ozarks unique among evangelical institutions? “…the degree to which its Christian commitments are subsumed in a militaristic patriotism.”
• How do hard-line institutions like CofO survive? Not in spite of their extremism, but because of it. Here at ILYBYGTH.
• What was CofO like before it went down the “Christian Nationalist” road? At RA.

In remembrance of Pearl Harbor:

• Five myths, from WaPo.
• From Japan’s perspective, at NI.
• Tools to teach about it, at NG.

Are college faculty really as radical as conservatives think? Ed Burmila says not even close, at UW. HT: MM.

The American right is so heavily invested in the fantasy of radical leftist professors that no evidence can convince them otherwise. . . . If you have considerable time on your hands and wish to see just what kind of leftists run universities, go to the graduate school and propose unionizing Research Assistants, Teaching Assistants, and other itinerant quasi-employees. You’ll discover quickly that senior faculty — the same ones who can’t wait to show you their picture with Tom Hayden or some other talisman of progressive cred — turn into staunch capitalists in a hurry.

Not funny. Columbia students shut down comedian, at IHE.

Bolsonaro’s educational culture war in Brazil, at the Economist.

• A new wrinkle: Culture war via Facebook. Here at ILYBYGTH.

Tech and reform: Why does every generation think its old ideas are new? By Larry Cuban.

The first teacher strike at a charter school. What will it portend? At NYT.

…the wheel of “reform” spins back around…

Liberty U loves Trump, and hires a football coach with a record of hiring prostitutes, at ESPN.

The key to de-segregation? Minnesota’s new reform at Slate. HT: CC.

single-family zoning proved as effective at segregating northern neighborhoods (and their schools) as Jim Crow laws had in the South.

The author of one of the best books about the 1920s KKK explains the complicated history at NPR.

How can we teach about painful historical topics? How about one person’s story at a time, at The Atlantic.